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SOUTHWESTERN ACADEMY San Marino and Beaver Creek Campuses STUDENT HANDBOOK for 2018 - 2019 STUDENT: _______________________________________________ STUDENT NUMBER: _______________________ EMAIL ADDRESS: [email protected] GRADE: ________ For initial class placements - subject to change as needed ADVISOR: _______________________________ EXT: _________ ASSEMBLY SEAT: ________________ BOOK LOCKER: _________ FIRST or SECOND LUNCH DINING ROOM: _______ TABLE: _____ GYM LOCKER NUMBER: ___________ PE: ___________ DORMITORY: _______________________________ROOM: _______ ROOMMATE'S NAME: ______________________________ DORM PARENT'S NAME: ___________________ EXT: ________ YOUR TEAM: ____________________________________________ SOUTHWESTERN ACADEMY STUDENT HANDBOOK FOR 2018-2019 A propriety document Not to be reproduced or distributed without permission © 2018 by the Board of Trustees Southwestern Academy San Marino, California 91108 2 Southwestern Academy ACADEMIC GOALS San Marino and Beaver Creek SOUTHWESTERN'S SCHOOLWIDE Campuses LEARNING OBJECTIVES These are the goals you are to accomplish in Student Handbook completing high school with our college-recom- mending diploma. All our classes, activities, and experiences work together to form these results. 2018 - 2019 Upon graduation with a college-recom- SOUTHWESTERN’S 95th YEAR mending diploma from Southwestern's 12th grade, every student will: --be qualified to enter and have the potential to NOTE: This “Red Book” student handbook and succeed at an appropriate college, university, or the assignment pages are important tools for community college; your success. Each student receives a binder and a copy of this handbook at the beginning of the term. You must bring this “Red Book” --be capable of reading, writing, and in its binder to all classes throughout the understanding English and have sufficient English year. proficiency to enter an American college or university; This information will be reviewed in classes on the first day of school. If you have any questions, ask then in class or ask any staff --have learned self-discipline, demonstrated by member or Proctor at any time in the year. Keep his/her willingness to abide by the rules set by your daily homework and your long term the school community; assignments in this notebook. Not having your binder and “Red Book” in every class is the same as not having any other --have taken part in co- and extra-curricular required materials. activities of his/her choice in the arts, athletics, leadership, music, and/or publications, thus helping to nurture well-rounded young people; VISION STATEMENT --have demonstrated a familiarity with Part of our school’s Mission, volunteerism and community service in our global reviewed each year by all our staff society; to keep Southwestern dedicated “for the Highest Good.” --have demonstrated not only tolerance for, but also familiarity with diverse ethnic, national, and SOUTHWESTERN OFFERS and shall continue cultural groups. to offer programs to strengthen students through small classes – normally of eight to twelve students – with personalized lessons, College acceptances, English proficiency testing, achievement grouping, two unique campuses in and records of your positive/negative points, safe environments, an international student body, activities, community service, and international and especially by supporting student student experiences are used to show results in achievements through an involved, nurturing, these areas for you and for our graduating caring staff who create an environment for classes as a whole. student success. ACADEMIC MATTERS Southwestern is a small school. We can be quite flexible helping you any way you need. Let any staff member know your questions or problems. ADVISOR You have a faculty advisor, a teacher who helps you with academic questions CLASS RULES Some of the class rules at and helps make sure you complete graduation Southwestern are different from public or other requirements. You will meet with your advisor schools. Most of these rules are simple and several times each semester to ask questions, common sense. Make sure you know and follow discuss concerns, and check progress. Talk with each so you can succeed with your classes: your advisor or a dean if you need academic help or have a class problem. --Be on time for class. If the teacher is not present wait quietly outside the room for ten AFTERNOON STUDY There is a seventh period minutes. If the teacher doesn’t arrive after ten at the end of the regular class day, before sports. minutes, go to the study hall, never elsewhere. This is a study and activities period. The main purpose of this period is so you can talk with --Come prepared with all your materials, teachers, get help, work with your study tutor, including your Red Book, binder, texts, and pens. review a problem, take a missed test or exam, ask about an assignment that you don’t --Write your homework assignment in your understand, get something from the library or Red Book each day before you leave the class. classroom, or work on a special project. This is also a period for club and student council --Backpacks must be left outdoors or in your meetings. This is not enough time to finish your locker, never in class or on assembly floors. homework for the next day, however. You are expected to study each evening. --Do not chew gum, eat, or drink other than beverages in closed containers in any classroom, BLAZER DAYS Once or twice a month and lab, assembly room, or study hall. announced on the monthly calendar, “Blazer Days” require all males to wear a blazer or suit --Leave phones in class room organizers at with shirt, tie, dress shoes, and black dress socks. the beginning of every class. Females wear blazer, a dress or blouse, and dress shoes. This is for special events on campus. --Electronic devices may NOT be used in any class unless allowed by the teacher, and BOOKS Textbooks and workbooks are charged never in any assembly or dining room. on your ‘incidentals’ account. You will be billed Electronic devices will be taken away if misused. the school’s cost, including taxes, shipping, and teacher’s materials. Textbooks (not work-books) --Students need to use English all day except in good condition can be resold at the beginning in foreign language classes. of the next term and will be credited to your account. Books are expensive - take care of --Cheating is not tolerated. Do not plagiarize them. Don’t damage, underline, or highlight in from books or online resources, copy from other any textbooks, or they cannot be resold. students, or give answers to other students. CHANGES IN CLASSES If a class seems too --Classes are dismissed by teachers, not by hard or too easy for you, talk with the teacher or bells. Rooms must be cleaned before leaving. your advisor, or with a dean or the headmaster. We want to help you succeed in the right class. COLLEGE APPLICATIONS Choosing, To change or drop a class, take these five steps: applying, getting accepted by the right college or university is a major job starting early in high --write the proposed change on your printed school. We will help, but we cannot do this for schedule of classes; you. We have a college application handbook on --ask a dean if the change meets your graduation line, "Getting In," with many tips on selection and needs. If it does, ask a dean to sign your schedule; admission along with useful addresses and dates. --get your schedule signed by the teacher whose class you are leaving. You must have turned in all required work and any books and materials; Our college counselor has time and skills to help --ask the new teacher to sign your schedule and get you find and apply to universities. Other you books and materials for your new class; counselors should never be used. Visitors from --take your schedule to the student office so the selected colleges come during the year to help change can be made on your class records. you choose your next step in education. 4 COMMUNITY SERVICE Every student at DRESS CODE Southwestern has a dress code to Southwestern Academy is required to do make classrooms more businesslike, and to community service, volunteering to help people in remind all of us that we are serious about a nonprofit hospital, church, or other agency studies. Students must follow the dress code at helping the disadvantaged, aged, or youth, or lunch. At breakfast and evening meals, ties are helping others at Southwestern. This service to not necessary, but all other rules apply. others is to help build a better community. Southwestern club shirts should be worn by members on meeting days. Dress code rules All students must complete a minimum of 100 always apply at assemblies, in classes, on most hours for high school graduation. Seniors must field trips, and around campus during the day. complete these hours and submit evidence before Students not dressed according to this Memorial Day in order to graduate. code must correct the problem before being admitted to classes. Dress code Up to half of your community service may also be infractions also result in disciplinary marks. completed during vacations. Every student must be neat and clean, Our Interact Club keeps count of your hours, particularly about hair. No one should call but it is your responsibility to complete the hours attention to himself or herself through and to turn in a record of your Community clothes, footwear, hair, or jewelry. No Service for credit each year. Community service clothing may show offensive words or designs, can be performed after classes at any nonprofit such as drug or alcohol statements or drawings. agency during the regular school week or on Because shaved heads or baggy clothing can be weekends or vacations, around school in helping misinterpreted by passers-by, students and classmates, or near your home. Work for pay or visitors may not wear such at Southwestern at for parents does not count.